AFV Club
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The T36E6 are the late model "three bar cleat" all steel cast tracks which were common on the M5 Stuart tanks and M8 Howitzer Motor Carriages in Europe beginning in late 1944. Each link consists of the now famous AFV Club link with four long styrene pins and two end connectors with bushings.

There are some minor sink marks on the T36E6 track, but it appears that AFV Club was able to use the bolts which hold the rubber backing to the steel face to hide ejection pin marks. Only one step is required to prepare the model to take these tracks, namely burring off the rings which Tamiya placed inside the drive wheels on all three models; this is so the correct length guide teeth can fit down over the driver teeth into position.

The tracks have to be assembled one link at a time, with care taken to trap the pins of the next link when assembling the connectors to the previous one. This is a bit tedious, but the results are worth it, and the tracks are much better overall than heat-bent resin.

Overall, these tracks correct one of the most egregious flaws of the light tank models from Tamiya.

-Cookie Sewell